Eventually we have one shareware (QuickTime Player), one freeware (HandBrake) and one application legally available for free until May 31 (WiVC). The first one is preinstalled and does not require anything else until you start dealing with HD video. The second can do everything (if you know how to write profiles for coding). Even if you don’t have the necessary experience you can find the settings to convert the video not into 1024х576, but into more visually appealing 1280х720. I think the update will appear soon followed by the proprietary solution.
WiVC upsets only with its slow speed, but you have to pay for quality and high definition. This is not all. The miracles happen when you decrease the quality of resulting video. If you choose 640х480 then we don’t have one minute of playback time to one minute and forty seconds for conversion, but 1:1. As to the latest video trends the high tech 3D effects are likely to thrive with the highest quality (definition and resolution). Whether you need it for relatively old TV programs and serials we watch even ignoring the channels logos? The answer is a resounding no. Unfortunately, the decrease of picture quality leaves the file size mystically unchanged.
The most interesting is arguably the size. It’s an open secret that 16GB of internal storage (in the basic version of iPad) is not enough. It can be the pinnacle of desire for a phone screen, but not for iPad, which display is several times bigger. In other words, to watch video on iPad you will have to buy the 32GB version. If you want to get positive emotions and enjoy the high definition video go for 64GB.
This assumption can be supported by the following figures. One minute of video created with the help of QuickTime Player (HD 480p) requires around 13,75MB of storage. A movie of 1.5 hours will need 1,2GB, and the full season of 24 50-minute episodes of a series will take up almost 16GB, which is the maximum capacity of the basic iPad. One minute of video from HandBrake (with the abovementioned configuration for coding) needs 16,6MB. A movie in this case will require 1.5 GB and the full season – around 20GB. WiVC is even “heavier”– 28,5MB per minutes or 2,6GB for a movie and the record breaking 34,2GB for the full season of a series. Slightly more than 50% of the maximum capacity, but you will have HD picture.
The first draft of the article ended with the comparison of user friendliness and thumbs up for WiVC. The calculations from the previous paragraph may be quite important for many consumers though. No matter how stunning your HD picture is it will not worth much, if it cannot fit in. Such size (of a series) is a bit too much even for 64GB iPad. Finally, the practicality of the third converter reviewed today is under threat and the market is dominated by QuickTime Player, used by many (including me) in order not to look for anything different, and HandBreak, usually discovered by those who are somehow not satisfied with QuickTime Player. To tell the truth I now belong to the second group because 720p is really cool, but enough is enough.
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